Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7, sentence 120

Now she often entreated her husband to let her go to see her mother.

Who acts: child · What happens: entreat, let, go, see · To what, where: husband, child, mother

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (child), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 entreated	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 entreated	nsubj
3	often	often	ADV	_	4 entreated	advmod
4	entreated	entreat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 husband	nmod:poss
6	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 entreated	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 let	mark
8	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 entreated	advcl
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 let	obj
10	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 let	xcomp
11	to	to	PART	_	12 see	mark
12	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 go	xcomp
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 mother	nmod:poss
14	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 see	obj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 entreated	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	entreat	past	child		child's husband	now	often property	vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent husband=Recipient
2	let	to-infinitive	child not said here	child				tree rules
3	go	infinitive	child not said here					vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	see	to-infinitive	child not said here	child's mother				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mother=Stimulus

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Project Gutenberg book 22373 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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